What kind of Fiction should You write? 5.0! [Quiz game ]

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What kind of Fiction should You write? 5.0! [Quiz game ]

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What kind of Fiction should You write?
A Literary Quiz Game
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Have you ever wanted to know what Genre of Fiction your writing style suited best?

In this game, there are 16 questions plus a bonus question in case you get a tie score, with 13 choices per question that add up to tell you which of the 13 genres your style of writing matches the closest. In addition, there are a pair of Scoring screens to show the results of your choices, and the strengths and weaknesses of your selections.

Consider this a writing tool to show you what areas you're good at, and which areas could use a bit more polish.

The game is short -- really short. It takes maybe 20 minutes to play and the graphics are fairly minimal. Even so, be prepared to click a lot.

Preview on You Tube by our very own Ionat!

Updated: FictionQuiz 5.0!
Download from: MediaFire
-- This is a Folder. Click on the file to download.
FictionQuiz-5.0-all.zip
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The game contains 12 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 149 words,
for an average of 12.4 words per screen.
The game contains 17 menus.

Music:
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Johann Strauss Waltz Medley
Played by the USAF Band

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The Introduction:
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There are 16 questions plus a Bonus Question if you get a tie score.
This is ONE of the questions.
-- As you can see, there are plenty of Detailed answers to choose from. :)
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Yes, I realize that the text is a little small. With an 800x600 screen size, it had to be that small just to fit all of it on the page.

This is 1 out of 13 possible Results.
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There's also a very simple stats page so you can see what you scored in the various genres.
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And an Additional Score Page that shows the strengths and weaknesses of your selections! :)
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In all honesty, this was an experiment, a test-drive if you will, for setting up the coding to use stat scores to gain a specific result. I just ended up actually making a fully functional Renpy game out of it, complete with a very simple stats screen accessible at the end.

Small as it is, I hope you find my little quiz entertaining.
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#2 Post by DeeKay »

It was !
It's not surprising that my score for Erotica was 0, lol

Interestingly though, my score is quite spread out :
- Sci-Fi => 3
- Suspense, Mystery, Action Adventure, Comedy => 2
- Romance, Fantasy, Horror => 1


Does that mean I like to mix things ? Hmm..
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Seems interesting ! Although the number of text is so small you must work very hard for this ^^
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#4 Post by azureXtwilight »

Yay, look what I get!
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With fantasy and suspense being the second and third XD
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#5 Post by icecheetah »

Horror, then suspense, then children's lit.
Well done game. Well done. Though I mostly write suspense rather than horror.

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#6 Post by Kessie »

I love quizzes so I had to try this. :D
*commenting as she plays along*
Oh wow, so many choices...!!
*gets tie*

Result was Children's literature! :O
Gothic, Romance, Mystery, Literature and Historical: 2
Comedy, Action Adventure and Science Fiction: 1

That was cool :D I had fun playing this and I'm sure everyone else will so grats on release.
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#7 Post by DreamDragonHatchling »

Horror :3 Why am i not surprised? ;3 Though there were times when i didn't have nothing to choose. I thing for heroine character and anther one, but everything else was okay.

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#8 Post by fantasygeeki »

Just played this (trying to get ideas about what sort of VNs I should create). At times it felt as though some questions were too close to choose between but I did like how detailed they were (and not just "yes", "no", "maybe"). I'd say this quiz was correct (or maybe I just love Fantasy and Science Fiction so much I'm glad those were the categories that fit me best). At the end, Giselle popped up before I finished reading my results (my cell rang and I got distracted).

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#9 Post by Carassaurat »

I've got 5 points for Literature, which is very accurate, then 2 each in Comedy, Science Fiction and Erotica. Comedy I can understand, but Erotica must be a major fluke. It's also interesting that I have 0 points for Historical, which sounds odd considering I actually have a degree in history, but I read a historical novel a month ago and thought it was one of the worst books I've read in years because it was trying to be clever so hard that it wasn't about anything; so the quiz got that right, too.

Also, the music was great :) .

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#10 Post by OokamiKasumi »

DeeKay wrote:It was !
I'm glad!
DeeKay wrote:It's not surprising that my score for Erotica was 0, lol
That simply means that you're not Sensory oriented in your description. (Sensory: of the 5 senses.)
DeeKay wrote:Interestingly though, my score is quite spread out :
- Sci-Fi => 3
- Suspense, Mystery, Action Adventure, Comedy => 2
- Romance, Fantasy, Horror => 1


Does that mean I like to mix things ? Hmm...
That's exactly what it means.
-- Just so you know, I used a spread sheet to work out all the answers, then wrote the quiz. :)
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tiya_nofurita wrote:Seems interesting ! Although the number of text is so small you must work very hard for this ^^
Sigh... It's because I made this at 800x600.
-- Some of the selections are long and wordy. Making the font even 1 point larger pushes the boxes over the question at the top.
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azureXtwilight wrote:Yay, look what I get!
[Mystery]
-- With fantasy and suspense being the second and third XD
This means that you're Detail oriented in your writing, but not so focused on realistic accuracy in your 'research'. :)
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icecheetah wrote:Horror, then suspense, then children's lit.
Well done game. Well done. Though I mostly write suspense rather than horror.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
-- Suspense and Horror have a lot of common traits. However, Suspense isn't as reliant on as Horror on sensory description, or realistic accuracy.
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Kessie wrote:I love quizzes so I had to try this. :D
*commenting as she plays along* Oh wow, so many choices...!!
*gets tie*

Result was Children's literature! :O
Gothic, Romance, Mystery, Literature and Historical: 2
Comedy, Action Adventure and Science Fiction: 1

That was cool :D I had fun playing this and I'm sure everyone else will, so grats on release.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!
-- Having your results so scattered across the board means you're still sorting out your writing style.

Gothic and Romance are Emotion oriented, Mystery and Historical are Detail oriented. Children's' Lit is Character oriented, and Literature is Self-oriented.

You quite literally have yet to decide on the focus of your writing.
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DreamDragonHatchling wrote:Horror :3 Why am i not surprised? ;3 Though there were times when i didn't have nothing to choose. I thing for heroine character and anther one, but everything else was okay.
Tell me what categories you had trouble in, and what you were actually looking for in those categories. I may not have been clear enough on some of the answers.
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fantasygeeki wrote:Just played this (trying to get ideas about what sort of VNs I should create). At times it felt as though some questions were too close to choose between...
They had to be that close. Many of the genres overlap in style. The difference in some of the categories is barely a hair's breadth.
fantasygeeki wrote:...but I did like how detailed they were (and not just "yes", "no", "maybe"). I'd say this quiz was correct (or maybe I just love Fantasy and Science Fiction so much I'm glad those were the categories that fit me best). At the end, Giselle popped up before I finished reading my results (my cell rang and I got distracted).
Yeah! I'm glad you liked it!
-- I worked seriously hard on making the quiz as accurate as I could. I even made out a spreadsheet to mark the differences in style.
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Carassaurat wrote:I've got 5 points for Literature, which is very accurate, then 2 each in Comedy, Science Fiction and Erotica. Comedy I can understand, but Erotica must be a major fluke.
I knew you'd get Literature. LOL!
-- Erotica is not quite the fluke you think it is. It is in fact, a reflection of how you handle Description and Plot. Erotica focuses on Sensory description; as in; describing their scenes using all five senses. It's something a lot of people miss. However, both Literature and Erotica play fast and loose with plotting. In other words, they may or may not have a plot at all.
Carassaurat wrote:It's also interesting that I have 0 points for Historical, which sounds odd considering I actually have a degree in history, but I read a historical novel a month ago and thought it was one of the worst books I've read in years because it was trying to be clever so hard that it wasn't about anything; so the quiz got that right, too.
Historicals... Good Historicals, focus on research accuracy with the intent to completely immerse the reader in their time period. The idea is to get the reader to actually experience that time period. In Bad Historicals the author tends to shows their hand a little too much, (which is what it sounds like happened to you.) Basically, their Ego gets in the way of what they were trying to accomplish -- immersing the reader in a new and different environment.
Carassaurat wrote:Also, the music was great :) .
I'm glad you liked it! I adore the Strauss waltzes.
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#11 Post by Sapphi »

Well, I had to click the tie-breaker button four times to get a result, but...
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I viewed my score and my points seemed to be stretched pretty thin. Sci-Fi was 4 and Romance and Historical were tied with 3 points each. I think it's kind of funny that science fiction was my highest score, since I think I'd make a very poor sci-fi writer... if we're talking about "hard" sci-fi, anyway... I guess I'm sort of "soft sci-fi" to "science fantasy" in my writing preferences.

Anyway, I liked the work you did with the interface on this quiz... especially that pretty trippy background and the relaxing music!
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#12 Post by Poly »

Wow, interesting - I got Literature (4 points) but Comedy and Sci-Fi were both 3 points. Comedy I think I can do just about, but Sci-Fi completely boggles my mind so I'm not sure how I managed that one!

Action Adventure, Romance and Horror all got zero ... no surprises there :P

Thanks for the game, that was an entertaining few minutes! I'll show this to my partner, who is a writer. :D

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#13 Post by 9-of-Hearts »

Am I the only one who can't seem to download it? I've tried to many times, but it won't and my browser says "Oops!" It can't find what/wherever the file's supposed to be to download it.

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#14 Post by SusanTheCat »

I should be writing Children's Lit. Explains why I read so much YA Lit. :)

Couple of typos:
What I'm trying to exress with the story

are pretty much window-ressing

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#15 Post by Alex »

Very interesting idea! And the game is looking nice.
Finally got Sci-Fi ending after two tie questions...))
P.S. typewriter at title screen reminds me of this...
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